Oct 11, 2022, Vancouver, BC – Capture Photography Festival is pleased to announce the appointment of Sarah Wang as the Festival’s new TD Assistant Curator of Engagement. Sarah Wang studied international relations and art history before working in the arts and culture sector inVancouver. Although her academic background is in visual arts and culture, she … Continued

We’re excited to continue our partnership with Booooooom to curate another public art installation which will be mounted at Olympic Village Canada Line Station in Vancouver. This is an international open call for photographers and artists making lens-based work. The selected artist will be part of the 10th annual 2023 Capture Photography Festival which will … Continued

Lights. Ponies. Rainbows. The work of Dainesha Nugent-Palache contains all these elements and was what first drew me to the work when I saw it in Family Album, Capture’s 2022 Featured Exhibition. The work is a reflection of Nugent-Palache’s childhood memories of being surrounded by porcelain figurines in her home which were collected by her … Continued

Andew Dadson’s Black Medic (Medicago Lupulina) Orange: This work is from a series of “painted landscapes”, made through a two-step process of spraying monochromatic, biodegradable paint onto a landscape, and photographing the painted land. Anyone who has tended to a garden knows the frustration of dealing with weeds; they are resilient, and no matter what … Continued

James Nizam’s razor-sharp work makes me rethink everyday existence. In it there is a sense of impossibility that makes me think anew even the most banal of interior or exterior domestic spaces. “Behold!” says Corinthians 15:51, “I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, … Continued

Theo Terry’s work Pears with American Tulipwood sits somewhere between photograph and sculpture for me–I love the three-dimensional element of his work that brings the work forward into the space. The composition of the pears on the marble with the tulipwood fabric recalls so many art historical still life precedents, while the orange background and … Continued

Karen Zalamea’s distorted landscape, They are lost as soon as they are made (no. 17), is more than just visually breathtaking. The process behind the series is innovative and resonates with many of the same approaches I take in my own photographic practice: co-creating with the land and environmental resources.The fogged nature of the work … Continued

I’ve long been a fan of Elizabeth’s witty, world-colliding collages and was delighted when she allowed us to share French Fantasy as part of our Public Art Program in 2020 on the GreyChurch Billboard. There are so very many reclining nude paintings in the history of art of which I am a fan but in … Continued